the goal of this master thesis is to design and implement an iPad app that reanimates – and rethinks – the tradition of »marginalia« for digital documents (see wikipedia entry). this app would allow someone with an iPad to annotate documents, most likely PDF documents, outside of the document margin, not only in the existing, often too-small margins, but beyond those margins, as this is the space that digital representation of the document opens up. additionally, the app should offer ways to create meaningful annotations beyond just using the pen, eg. the standard grammar-correction symbols, manicules, or other forms of traditional or new symbolic annotations. the master thesis would include some research on the tradition of marginalia, concept creation, design and implementation of an iPad app. interest in design, typography and calligraphy is of advantage, experience with iOS coding would be great.